This page will be used to showcase members'
scratch-built rolling stock.
A Brake Van by Alan Eccles
The brake van body is entirely
scratch built on an Accucraft Lynton and Barnstable wagon
chassis. A nice addition to a rake of L & B wagons.
Photos by Alan
Eccles
A Snowplough by Tom Smith
This freelance snowplough is
based loosely on one used by the DR and the Harz mountain
railway here in Germany. The chassis is from a LGB starter
set cement mixer and stripped everything off to the decking.
Everything else is made from brass sheet and soldered.
The original starter set wagon
The drawings and initial mock-up
The completed vehicle prior to
painting
Front-end detail
Painted in grey primer
The finished and painted
snowplough
The finished and painted
snowplough
The plastic wheel
sets have been replaced with LGB pickup axles and the intention
is to provide direct lighting for the lamps and for the internal
lights. The project was started in late winter and I will
have to wait until next winter to test with real snow!
Only hand tools and a vice were used as I have no bending bars
or other specialist tooling.
